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Kaoru

Member Elite

since 2003-06-07

Posts 3892
where the wild flowers grow

0 posted 2009-05-22 01:50 PM

I feel the sun on my back
heated my skin and smells of earth,
crocheting the dandelion roots
creating a blanket of weeds.
And I bury my toes into the muddy ground,
so soft and cool to my touch,
I feel like a child again,
closing my eyes to the bright day
and resting my body to the sky.

The smells are tasting my lost,
and I am thinking too hard
so I manage to stop the breathing enough
to play my hair in the wind.
For moments at a time I forget
the tears I shed these months,
and I smile like the rays so blinding
I feel beautiful again
in the dirty.

So comfort me not, the lilacs are blooming
and all I needed was that perfume.
What more could I need but a name
and even that..but it would seem such a shame
to let this day go to waste.

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

1 posted 2009-05-22 01:57 PM

quote:
And I bury my toes into the muddy ground,
so soft and cool to my touch,
I feel like a child again,
closing my eyes to the bright day
and resting my body to the sky.

A new awareness of the power to create your wellbeing is tangible here, dear Kaoru.

Wonderfully profound poetic expressions.

Love,
Margherita

Mysteria

Member Laureate

since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

2 posted 2009-05-22 02:03 PM

Oh how I missed your words. I can "feel" this one as I am the same but with my Wisteria. It makes the day worth so much more. Squeeze that Freja for me.

Carpe' Diem,
Mysteria

viking_metal
Senior Member

since 2007-02-02

Posts 1337
In a Jeep, Minnesota.

3 posted 2009-05-22 03:52 PM

*thinks about moseying around your area until he sees you epic-ly standing on a hill with lilacs and cool mud in the wind with green grass etc*

Freaking wonderful write. I am impressed with the vividness.

Don't waste the day. It's beautiful out.

-P

Everyone deserves to be loved, even you.

Alison

Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

4 posted 2009-05-25 04:45 PM

Meghan,

This is perfection and my perfect day.  I love this poem you share with us.

I was out in the sun yesterday.  My toes were dug into the warm silt as I sat on the river bank and read/snoozed in the sun.  The chokecherries are just beginning to blossom and the aroma is strong.

Thank you for setting aside the sad times to write this.

Alison

PS - I noticed last night that we share the same birthday.

Dark Stranger
Member Patricius

since 2001-03-19

Posts 13631
West Coast

5 posted 2009-05-26 08:15 AM

ms k..you make highways sometimes..my favorite people are highways

Bloodline
Member

since 2009-05-23

Posts 236
Oklahoma

6 posted 2009-05-26 08:24 PM

Oh Kaoru,

I am so glad you did not waste this poem,
your writing is alluring and tangible
yet with a dreaminess to savor,

Bloodline

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